The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

When the ship transporting the captured nobleman of Bergzisale and the wife of Ishran Glyy Khan arrived near the coast of Akerman, the Akerman offensive and defensive war had been in progress for 12 days. The attack on the Ackerman wall has also reached 8 days. In these 8 days, Isilan Glyy and his two Bayes racked their brains and tried their best, but apart from leaving corpses under Ackerman city and underground again and again, what I didn't get it either.

On this day, the beginning of Langley adopted a new tactic. He ordered the soldiers to build seven siege vehicles with a height of fifteen to six meters. The main body of these siege vehicles is wooden, and a thick layer of cowhide and sheepskin is spread on the outside of the wooden planks, and water is poured on them to resist the bullets projected from the city.

The siege vehicle is very heavy and requires fifty big men to be able to drive it. Behind each siege vehicle, dozens of Crimean Khan guards were standing by. As soon as the siege truck reached Ackerman's city wall, they swarmed up from the ladder.

At the sight of these behemoths, cold sweat broke out on the foreheads of Muhammad Glyy and Bayezid Khan. Because both knew that Ackerman’s defenders had no weapons capable of causing deadly damage to him.

If there is even a large-caliber artillery in the city, even a six-pounder cannon, it can deal with these siege vehicles. However, Ackerman only has a small caliber Fran cannon, its caliber is too small, the kinetic energy of the shell can not even penetrate the wet leather wooden plank at a distance.

On the several walls facing the landing point of the siege vehicle, Akhun Miller is constantly dispatching soldiers to strengthen the defense. A famous soldier holding a shield gathered together, looking at the approaching siege vehicle with fear in his eyes.

"Head Chris, what should I do?!"

On the tower, Alan tried to grab Christina's sleeve with a trembling hand and asked about the strategy to break the enemy, but before he touched Christina's arm, Karlsson blocked him.

"What's the panic! Captain Chris is resourceful and there must be a way." Mohamed Glyy glared at Alan and said angrily, but what he said was more to Christina.

Christina clearly understood Muhammad Gley's anxiety. She soothed Muhammad Glyy and said, "Khan need not worry. Although our muskets and artillery can not destroy their siege vehicles, they can kill the soldiers pushing the siege vehicles forward. As long as the siege vehicles lose their power, they can’t Close to the city wall, they are just a pile of wood. Not to mention..."

Mohamed Glyy heard Christina say that he would rely on killing the soldiers pushing the siege vehicle to prevent the siege vehicle from approaching the city wall, and his face was not happy. Even when Bayezid heard of Christina's approach, he also felt that "the talent of the christian regiment of the Yangtze River is exhausted". Because of such a simple method, when the Crimean Tatars attacked the big cities of Tsarist Russia and Ukraine, the Polish and Tsarist Russians who defended the city had used it long ago, and the Tatars’ response was simple and rude. That is to continuously send people to replace the dead and injured to continue to push the siege vehicle forward. Anyway, there are cheap Crimean slave soldiers and captured slaves.

But Christina's "not to mention" gave Muhammad Gley a kind of hope-the head of Chris still has a back hand.

"What's more? Captain Chris."

As Muhammad Glyy’s megaphone, Alan asked Muhammad Glyy and Bayezid Khan the questions they wanted to ask.

For Alan’s question, Christina deliberately sold it off. She let the two Khan watch them carefully, and there will be an answer soon.

Gradually, the siege vehicle was less than fifty meters away from the city wall. The Crimean garrison on the siege vehicle kept hiding behind the wooden planks wrapped in wet leather and fired at the city wall. Some of the shields were shattered by stray bullets and hit the soldiers behind.

At this time, the Fron cannon on the wall also fired. But the projectile either picked up kinetic energy after hitting the wet cowhide, or it only pierced the siege vehicle through a hole without hurting its roots.

"Shoot down, shoot at the enemy pushing the cart below."

When the siege vehicle was still forty meters away from the city wall, Corsson commanded the Hessian mercenaries and Crimean garrison to shoot bullets at the enemy pushing the siege vehicle forward, but just like Muhammad Gley As expected, Isilan Glyy didn't care about the soldiers' lives at all. The next one will be filled up again.

"Captain Chris, if you have a way to use it quickly!" Seeing that the siege vehicle was less than 30 meters away from the city wall, and even the features of the Crimean garrison on the siege vehicle were clearly visible, Alan urged again anxiously road. He is about to jump.

At this time, the two khans stared at Christina closely.

"It's time," Christina murmured.

As if in response to Christina, a big explosion suddenly occurred at the bottom of the two frontmost siege vehicles. The fire swallowed everyone in the vicinity of the siege vehicle and turned the siege vehicle into a huge pillar of fire.

"God! Is this the flames of hell?" Alan looked at the two pillars of fire and couldn't help being stunned.

But this is just the beginning. Then, two more siege vehicles suddenly exploded from the bottom. For a time, the battlefield was full of people who had been swallowed by flames. They shouted and wailed. Some people rolled on the ground trying to put out the flames on their bodies, while others rushed to the surviving comrades around them, hoping they could save themselves. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

On the city wall, all Crimean Tatar soldiers, including Akhun Mierzan, were dumbfounded. This hellish scene shocked them no less than Alan.

Although there were still half of the siege vehicles left, the soldiers and even the officers on the side of Isilan Glyy had long since lost their intent to fight. They dropped the siege vehicles that were close to the city wall, and fled to their positions.

The gate of Ackerman was opened. Yelishei led a cavalry rush out, they used great axes and grenades to destroy all the enemy's abandoned siege vehicles, and then returned to the city with ease like an outing.

Seeing that all the siege vehicles were destroyed, Christina smiled: "Two sweats, we won again."

"Chris, tell me, how did you do it? Do you really have magic?" Muhammad Glyy said dreamily.

Christina neither denies nor admits Muhammad Gley's speculation that she is a magician. Because she knew that it was necessary for Muhammad Glyy to be in awe of herself in moderation. After all, this Khan has made a lot of small moves recently—he actually tried to win over the middle and lower-level officers in the mercenary group.

The real destruction of these siege vehicles is the gunpowder barrels buried in the ground. Christina made full use of the tunnels previously excavated by Isilan Glyy and Corzon. She ordered them to dig a parallel along the city wall and buried gunpowder underneath. When the siege vehicle moved to the bottom of the tunnel, it detonated the gunpowder, thereby destroying the siege vehicle above it.

Muhammad Glei wanted to ask again, and just then, a Hessian mercenary ran up to the tower.

"Deputy Captain Chris, boat, boat." The Hessian mercenary said breathlessly.